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Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by jayseeg »

jerguismi wrote: post #129
RainSunshine wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He isn't trying to suggest this is a service which everyone will find useful or interesting. It actually takes a lot of honesty with yourself to even understand why you might need this service. Thousands of people every day make decisions on their own, or on the advice of others, which are badly informed decisions. This guy could help them. For $10, he isn't going to send you a 5 word email and ignore you forever. He…

Usually the consultants I pay or meet are much more expensive than $10.

They also likely have a clear expertise.

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by FLUX-YOU »

jerguismi wrote: post #120
jtheory wrote: post #116

I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pi…

Who the fuck cares if you don't see the need. It is a niche product, like an impulse buy in a supermarket. I don't see need for 99% of the crap what is sold in a dollar store, but the dollar store is still a quite solid business. That said, I just bought my advice, paid but I still don't see email. Damn.

The lesson learned here is that the cost of living is so high in California that $10 only has the buying power of $0.02

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by kyro »

jtheory wrote: post #116

I, personally, cannot imagine any question to which I would get a more valuable answer from a 28-year-old software engineer in California interested in finance, men's fashion and weightlifting than I would get from my wife, family, friends and peers -- people who know me; whose lives actually overlap with mine in some way. What is "telling it like it is" if you don't share the same context? How likely is it he can pi…

"Telling it like it is" is typically a cover used by assholes who want to give a simplistic, boneheaded, confrontational opinion completely devoid of context and empathy.

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by jv22222 »

FLUX-YOU wrote: post #153
jerguismi wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who the fuck cares if you don't see the need. It is a niche product, like an impulse buy in a supermarket. I don't see need for 99% of the crap what is sold in a dollar store, but the dollar store is still a quite solid business. That said, I just bought my advice, paid but I still don't see email. Damn.

The lesson learned here is that the cost of living is so high in California that $10 only has the buying power of $0.02

And wasn't someone complaining that HN had no humour just the other day! Nicely done ;)

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by anonfunction »

alxdistill wrote: post #92

Okay. I did it, paid my $10 bucks and waiting for an email. I actually run a much more expensive, competing service: http://talkshopwithus.com

Interesting idea, I'm starting a startup consulting company and plan to be more expensive but laser focused on early stage startups with One thing I've noticed as a freelance developer is that people are more willing to commit to per project contracts rather than hourly. I wonder if that's the case with a service such as yours where it's a one time deal.

You have a broken link:

http://i.imgur.com/NG4VfYN.png

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by shostack »

notatoad wrote: post #59
guiomie wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He would have to respond to a lot of messages (100 000) to reach a million.

That's the thing about business ideas where revenue is directly tied to the work you have to do: scaling is super easy. getting more questions than you can handle by yourself? hire some friends to help.

In this case I would agree, probably relatively easy to scale.

I've long thought about the differences in scalability and margins when comparing service-based businesses to product-based ones.

In the ad agency world, it is all service-based for the most part still, margins are razor thin, pay is low, and the stress is massive. The problem then becomes maintaining quality of service as you scale, and efficiency of operations to keep your margins as healthy as possible. Stressed out service employees are basically the equivalent of delivering a shitty product. If it becomes a big enough loss in quality, you lose customers.

Re: Your friends are lying to you. For $10, I wont.

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Post by highiquser »

goodoldboys wrote: post #110

Hey everyone - thanks for the feedback. I wasn't sure how the response would be but it's been mostly positive so far. I came up with the idea because I wanted to use such a service, but when I couldn't find anything I figured I'd create it and thought it would be fun. Most importantly I want to help people out - the $10 is so I can (somewhat) justify it from a time perspective. So far it turns out I'm spending a lot…

The idea is terrible because you lack the qualifications to answer questions outside if your own personal expertise (whatever that may be). Second, assuming you get questions, you will be working at $20-10/hour. Not much money. So yeah, two thumbs down. awful idea
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